Word: adnan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven months ago, when Turkey's Strongman General Cemal Gursel ordered the leaders of the deposed regime of Adnan Menderes to stand trial, expectation was that their cases would be wrapped up expeditiously, the junta's revolt against the Menderes government vindicated neatly, and Menderes & Co. put out of the way conveniently. But by last week, the i sth trial on Yassiada Island ended inconclusively, the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th trials were under way, the 1,000th witness took the stand to give testimony, and the Turks were frankly tired of the whole thing...
Inside the coffin was the body of Lutfi Kirdar, Minister of Health in Turkey's late, deposed regime. Sickly and burdened with 72 years of age, Kirdar had dropped dead fortnight ago while testifying before the court trying ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and other leaders of the regime that Kirdar had once served. Present at the obsequies in Istanbul's Sisli mosque was a menacingly large crowd of 1,500 mourners, many genuinely bereaved but many others expressly come to show defiance of General Cemal Gursel's ruling military junta. To do so, they chose to consider...
Seven months after a bloodless military coup overthrew the regime of Premier Adnan Menderes, Turkey appears at last on its way to a restoration of constitutional government. Portly General Cemal Gursel is back in charge after being laid low for a month by a slight paralysis; an appointed Constituent Assembly is gathering in Ankara this week to set up new elections...
...been struck at a bad time. A month ago he had expelled 14 young junta officers who wanted to postpone elections and the return of democratic government until the army had enforced drastic authoritarian reforms on virtually every phase of Turkish life. The mass trial of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and 520 other Turkish ex-leaders, after arousing international uneasiness about Turkey's juridical system with arguments about shaggy dogs and mistresses, was at last beginning to produce serious evidence of the old regime's abuse of power...
...start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...